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Facebook Zero is an initiative undertaken by social networking service company Facebook in collaboration with mobile phone-based Internet providers, whereby the providers waive data (bandwidth) charges (also known as zero-rate) for accessing Facebook on phones via a stripped-down text-only version of its mobile website (as opposed to the ordinary mobile website m.facebook.com that also loads pictures). [1]

66 relations: Africa, Airtel Africa, Alliance for Affordable Internet, Bonbon (mobile phone operator), Cable & Wireless Communications, Chamath Palihapitiya, Chile, Christopher Mims, Cosmote, Dawn (newspaper), Digi Telecommunications, Digicel, Djezzy, E-Plus, Facebook, Facebook for SIM, Free Basics, Freedom Mobile, Google, Google Free Zone, Grameenphone, Hrvatski Telekom, Information and communications technology, Internet service provider, IPKO, Itissalat Al-Maghrib, Jawwal, MagtiCom, Mark Zuckerberg, MASCOM, Mashable, Mobile network operator, Mobile Web, Mobile World Congress, Movistar, MTN Group, Ncell, Net neutrality, Play (telecommunications), Quartz (publication), Saudi Telecom Company, SFR, Smart Communications, Social networking service, TechCrunch, Telekom Albania, Telenor Pakistan, Text-based user interface, The News International, Three UK, ..., Tomato (mobile phone operator), Twitter Zero, Unitel (Angola), Vipnet, Vodafone, Vodafone Albania, Vodafone Greece, Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia, Wikipedia Zero, WIND Hellas, XL Axiata, Zain Group, Zero-rating, Zong Pakistan, 2degrees. Expand index (16 more) »

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).

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Airtel Africa

Bharti Airtel International (Netherlands) B.V., doing business as Airtel Africa, is a holding company and a subsidiary of Indian telecommunications company Bharti Airtel.

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Alliance for Affordable Internet

The Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) is an initiative to make the Internet more affordable to people around the world.

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Bonbon (mobile phone operator)

Bonbon (usually stylised as bonbon, in lowercase) is a mobile network operator based in Croatia.

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Cable & Wireless Communications

Cable & Wireless Communications Ltd was a British multinational telecommunications company headquartered in London, United Kingdom with operations in Pan-America (the Caribbean and Central America).

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Chamath Palihapitiya

Chamath Palihapitiya (born September 3, 1976) is a venture capitalist and the founder and CEO of Social Capital.

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Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a South American country occupying a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west.

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Christopher Mims

Christopher Mims is a technology columnist at The Wall Street Journal, which he joined in 2014.

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Cosmote

COSMOTE is the largest mobile network operator in Greece.

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Dawn (newspaper)

DAWN is Pakistan's oldest, leading and most widely read English-language newspaper.

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Digi Telecommunications

Digi Telecommunications or Digi.Com Berhad (d.b.a. digi), is a mobile service provider in Malaysia.

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Digicel

Digicel is a mobile phone network provider operating in 31 markets across the Caribbean, Central America, and Oceania regions.

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Djezzy

Djezzy (Arabic:جازي)is Algeria's principal mobile network operator, with a market share of 65% (over 16.49 million subscribers as of Nov 2011) and a network covering 90% of the population (48 wilayas).

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E-Plus

E-Plus was a mobile telecommunications operator in Germany.

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Facebook

Facebook is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California.

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Facebook for SIM

Facebook for SIM, also called LinqUs Facebook for SIM, is a client/server SIM application developed by international digital security company Gemalto that enables people to access Facebook using the SMS protocol on their mobile phones, without needing a data plan.

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Free Basics

Internet.org is a partnership between social networking services company Facebook and six companies (Samsung, Ericsson, MediaTek, Opera Software, Nokia and Qualcomm) that plans to bring affordable access to selected Internet services to less developed countries by increasing efficiency, and facilitating the development of new business models around the provision of Internet access.

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Freedom Mobile

Freedom Mobile Inc. is a Canadian wireless telecommunications provider owned by Shaw Communications.

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Google

Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.

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Google Free Zone

Google Free Zone was a global initiative undertaken by the Internet company Google in collaboration with mobile phone-based Internet providers, whereby the providers waive data (bandwidth) charges (also known as zero-rate) for accessing select Google products such as Google Search, Gmail, and Google+.

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Grameenphone

Grameenphone (গ্রামীণফোন) (DSE: GP, CSE: GP), widely abbreviated as GP, is the leading telecommunications service provider in Bangladesh.

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Hrvatski Telekom

Hrvatski Telekom is the leading provider of telecommunications services in Croatia, serving 924,000 fixed lines, 2.2 million mobile subscribers and 618,000 broadband connections through its Residential and Business divisions.

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Information and communications technology

Information and communication technology (ICT) is another/extensional term for information technology (IT) which stresses the role of unified communications and the integration of telecommunications (telephone lines and wireless signals), computers as well as necessary enterprise software, middleware, storage, and audio-visual systems, which enable users to access, store, transmit, and manipulate information.

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Internet service provider

An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides services for accessing, using, or participating in the Internet.

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IPKO

IPKO is a company that provides telecommunication services in Kosovo.

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Itissalat Al-Maghrib

Itissalat Al-Maghrib (Acronym: IAM, اتصالات المغرب) is the main telecommunication company in Morocco.

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Jawwal

Palestine Cellular Communications Company, doing business as Jawwal (جوال), is the first mobile network operator in Palestine, employing almost 887 people.

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MagtiCom

MagtiCom, Ltd (Georgian. მაგთიკომი) was founded on February 12, 1996 by Dr.

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Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American technology entrepreneur and philanthropist best known for co-founding and leading Facebook as its chairman and chief executive officer.

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MASCOM

MASCOM wireless is a mobile phone service provider operating in Botswana.

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Mashable

Mashable is a digital media website founded by Pete Cashmore in 2005.

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Mobile network operator

A mobile network operator or MNO, also known as a wireless service provider, wireless carrier, cellular company, or mobile network carrier, is a provider of wireless communications services that owns or controls all the elements necessary to sell and deliver services to an end user including radio spectrum allocation, wireless network infrastructure, back haul infrastructure, billing, customer care, provisioning computer systems and marketing and repair organizations.

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Mobile Web

The mobile web refers to browser-based Internet services accessed from handheld mobile devices, such as smartphones or feature phones, through a mobile or other wireless network.

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Mobile World Congress

The GSMA Mobile World Congress is the world's largest exhibition for the mobile industry, incorporating a thought-leadership conference that features prominent executives representing mobile operators, device manufacturers, technology providers, vendors and content owners from across the world.

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Movistar

Movistar is a major telecommunications brand owned by Telefónica, operating in Spain and in many Hispanic American countries.

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MTN Group

MTN Group Limited, formerly M-Cell, is a South Africa-based multinational mobile telecommunications company, operating in many African, European and Asian countries.

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Ncell

Ncell (एनसेल), is a privately owned mobile network operator in Nepal. Ncell was the first private company to operate public GSM services in Nepal, initially under Mero Mobile brand, re-branded to Ncell on 12 March 2010. It broke the monopoly held by the then state-owned, now public telecommunication company Nepal Telecom. On 12 April 2016, Ncell has officially become a part of Axiata Group Berhad, a Malaysian telecommunications group.

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Net neutrality

Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers treat all data on the Internet equally, and not discriminate or charge differently by user, content, website, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or method of communication.

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Play (telecommunications)

Play, P4 is a brand name of a Polish cellular telecommunications provider.

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Quartz (publication)

Quartz (qz.com) is a news website owned by Atlantic Media.

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Saudi Telecom Company

Saudi Telecom Company, (STC; STC Group; STC International) (شركة الاتصالات السعودية) is a Saudi Arabia-based telecommunications company that offers landline, mobile, internet services and Computer network.

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SFR

SFR (Société française du radiotéléphone) is a French telecommunications company that provides voice, video, data, and Internet telecommunications and professional services to consumers and businesses.

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Smart Communications

Smart Communications, Inc., commonly referred to as Smart, is a wholly owned wireless communications and digital services subsidiary of PLDT, Inc., a telecommunications and digital services provider based in the Philippines.

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Social networking service

A social networking service (also social networking site, SNS or social media) is a web application that people use to build social networks or social relations with other people who share similar personal or career interests, activities, backgrounds or real-life connections.

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TechCrunch

TechCrunch is an American online publisher of technology industry news founded in 2005 by Archimedes Ventures whose partners were Michael Arrington and Keith Teare.

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Telekom Albania

Telekom Albania SH.A. (Also known as T-Mobile Albania) is a telecommunications company that operates in Albania, previously as AMC and now as Telekom Albania.

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Telenor Pakistan

Telenor Pakistan (ٹیلی نار پاکستان) is owned by the Norwegian Telenor Group, which is an international provider of voice, data, content and mobile communication services in 13 markets across Europe and Asia and an additional 17 markets through its ownership in VimpelCom Ltd.

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Text-based user interface

Text-based user interface (TUI), also called textual user interface or terminal user interface, is a retronym coined sometime after the invention of graphical user interfaces.

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The News International

The News International, published in broadsheet size, is the largest English language newspaper in Pakistan.

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Three UK

Three UK is a British telecommunications and internet service provider operating as a subsidiary of CK Hutchison Holdings, operating under the global Three brand.

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Tomato (mobile phone operator)

Tomato is a brand in Croatian mobile communications market owned by VIPnet.

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Twitter Zero

Twitter Zero is an initiative undertaken by social networking service company Twitter in collaboration with mobile phone-based Internet providers, whereby the providers waive data (bandwidth) charges—so-called "zero-rate"—for accessing Twitter on phones when using a stripped-down text-only version of the website.

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Unitel (Angola)

Unitel S.A. is a private Angolan mobile phone company which was established on 8 March 2001 as a joint-stock company.

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Vipnet

Vipnet is the first private mobile network operator in Croatia, a part of the Telekom Austria Group and a strategic partner of Vodafone, the mobile operator.

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Vodafone

Vodafone Group plc is a British multinational telecommunications conglomerate, with headquarters in London.

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Vodafone Albania

Vodafone Albania Sh.A. is a mobile telephone company, operating in Albania.

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Vodafone Greece

Vodafone Greece (officially known as Vodafone-Panafon Hellenic Telecommunications Company S.A) is the Greek subsidiary of Vodafone.

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Wikimedia Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (WMF, or simply Wikimedia) is an American non-profit and charitable organization headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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Wikipedia

Wikipedia is a multilingual, web-based, free encyclopedia that is based on a model of openly editable content.

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Wikipedia Zero

Wikipedia Zero was a project by the Wikimedia Foundation to provide Wikipedia free of charge on mobile phones via zero-rating, particularly in developing markets.

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WIND Hellas

WIND Hellas, formerly TELESTET Hellas and later TIM Hellas, is an integrated telecommunications provider with headquarters in Athens, Greece.

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XL Axiata

PT XL Axiata Tbk (formerly PT Excelcomindo Pratama Tbk), is an Indonesia-based mobile telecommunications services operator.

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Zain Group

Zain (زين) is a mobile telecommunications company founded in 1983 in Kuwait as MTC (Mobile Telecommunications Company), and later rebranded as Zain in 2007.

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Zero-rating

Zero-rating is the practice of providing Internet access without financial cost under certain conditions, such as by only permitting access to certain websites or by subsidizing the service with advertising.

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Zong Pakistan

Zong (زونگ) or China Mobile Pakistan is a pan Pakistan mobile network operator headquartered in Islamabad, which offers voice and data services ranging from postpaid and prepaid plans, 2G, 3G and 4G services, mobile banking to fixed telephony.

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2degrees

2degrees is a telecommunications provider that operates in New Zealand.

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